I took a break to enjoy the holiday, as I’m sure many of you did, but my inbox kept busy, and on Friday came a doozy, courtesy of the Washington Post. You remember that little bit of a banking crisis we had a couple of years back, where banks around the world might have possibly,…
When last we met, it was to discuss a Big Idea that the Obama Administration might apply to get some job creation going, despite a difficult Congress; the Big Idea was to look at the “Buy American†provisions that exist in our laws, regulations, and Executive Orders and see if we could practice a bit…
We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics and all, and that means if this Administration wants to stay in the jobs game they’re going to have to find…
It was just a couple of nights ago that Keith Olbermann was challenging us, in one of his “Special Commentsâ€, to rise up in the streets and take back this country. He pointed out that the only way those on the left were going to be able to fight against those who are looking to…
So everybody’s hearing the news, right? There is a tentative debt ceiling deal, and this Administration and Congressional Democrats seem to have won everything they wanted: Republicans get to have multiple “we don’t approve†votes before 2012 on raising the debt ceiling, there won’t be any new revenue, there’s going to be another “hostage-taking†event…
I have not been talking about the insanity around the debt ceiling and debt and deficit and the efforts of Republicans to drive us all off the cliff, but I am today – and I’m going to do it by allowing you to grab ahold of this problem and see for yourself just how unbelievably…
(FNS – Washington, New Germany, April 17, 1947) America’s new Führer, Adolf Hitler, announced today that his official War History would in fact acknowledge that one of the biggest contributing factors to the defeat of the Allies was the insistence of the former United States of America on sticking to its Balanced Budget Amendment, which…
So I disappeared for a full week, right in the middle of what should have been a busy writing schedule, and I have to claim some “personal days†to cover the time we missed here at the blog – but it won’t be time entirely wasted. Instead, I’m going to jump into my own personal…